Quotes about Discernment

The Holy Spirit can and will guide me in direct proportion to the time and effort I will expend to know and do the will of God.

So if you get all hung up, thinking now is this thing from God or is it from Satan? Is this the voice of God or the voice of Satan? Stop worrying about it. You don't really need to sort that out because here's a case where the thorn was in a sense given by God as a messenger of Satan.

Lord, deliver me from the urge to open my mouth when I should shut it. Give me the wisdom to keep silent where silence is wise. Remind me that not everything needs to be said, and that there are very few things that need to be said by me.

True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.

Each and every decision you make, regardless of its level of intensity, is vitally important as you seek to do God's will.

The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.

Make no decision without prayer!

We mustn't say more than we should, but we mustn't say less than we must.

What's descriptive isn't necessarily prescriptive.

The Puritan Thomas Brooks once wrote, "We know metals by their tinkling, and men by their talking."[113

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.